PREFACE

PREFACE (1886)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE ELDER SISTER

CHAPTER II THE NEW COURT

CHAPTER III THE NEW PRINCIPLE

CHAPTER IV HONEST PHYL

CHAPTER V VILLAGE GOSSIP

CHAPTER VI THE NEW FRIEND

CHAPTER VII SIR MAURICE

CHAPTER VIII THE BROTHERS

CHAPTER IX THE WASP

CHAPTER X COUSIN ROTHERWOOD

CHAPTER XI DANCING

CHAPTER XII THE FEVER

CHAPTER XIII A CURIOSITY MAP

CHAPTER XIV CHRISTMAS

CHAPTER XV MINOR MISFORTUNES

CHAPTER XVI VANITY AND VEXATION

CHAPTER XVII LITTLE AGNES

CHAPTER XVIII DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

CHAPTER XIX THE RECTOR'S ILLNESS

CHAPTER XX THE LITTLE NEPHEW

CHAPTER XXI CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME

CHAPTER XXII THE BARONIAL COURT

CHAPTER XXIII JOYS AND SORROWS

CHAPTER XXIV LOVE'S LABOUR LOST

CHAPTER XXV THE THIRTIETH OF JULY

CHAPTER XXVI THE CRISIS

CHAPTER XXVII CONCLUSION

She visited the village school.—p. 38

SCENES AND CHARACTERS,
OR,
Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

BY
CHARLOTTE M. YOUNGE
AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ ‘THE TWO GUARDIANS,’ ETC.

‘Yes, Miss, Dick Rood is a sad fellow.’—p. 41

FIFTH EDITION

ILLUSTRATED BY W. J. HENNESSY

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1889

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